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The Medical Education Partnership Initiative: Evaluating Community-Based Medical Education Programs: Workshop Report

May 2014 by Christopher Deery, Rebecca Bailey, Heather Ross, and Zohray Talib
application/pdf iconMEPI: Evaluating Community-Based Medical Education Programs

In collaboration with the MEPI community-based education technical working group, CapacityPlus and the MEPI coordinating center conducted a community-based education evaluation workshop in Kampala, Uganda, April 1–3, 2014. The workshop brought together representatives from 11 MEPI-supported institutions and consortiums in 7 countries.

TAGS: Community-Based Education, Education and Training, Medical Education, MEPI, Uganda

The Medical Education Partnership Initiative: Report of an eLearning Strategic Plan Development Workshop

March 2014 by Leah McManus, Dave Potenziani, Rebecca Bailey, and Yianna Vovides
application/pdf iconMEPI: Report of an eLearning Strategic Plan Development Workshop

In collaboration with the MEPI eLearning technical working group, CapacityPlus and the MEPI coordinating center organized and conducted a workshop to complete draft eLearning strategic plans for MEPI-supported institutions, share knowledge and experiences, and build a supportive network of eLearning collaborators. The workshop, which was held in Gaborone, Botswana, February 24–27, 2014, brought together representatives from 11 MEPI-supported schools and one MEPI consortium.

TAGS: Botswana, Education and Training, eLearning, Health Workers, MEPI, Workshop

The Medical Education Partnership Initiative Physician Tracking Technical Working Group: Functional Requirements and Data Specifications Development Workshop

December 2013 by Michael Drane and Candice Chen
MEPI: Physician Tracking Technical Working Group Workshop Report

The Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Physician Tracking Technical Working Group convened a workshop in Lusaka, Zambia, to develop the functional requirements and business processes necessary to construct a framework for tracking graduates. Held on October 21–23, 2013, the workshop was a collaborative effort among the chair of the Technical Working Group, the MEPI Coordinating Center, CapacityPlus, and the Public Health Informatics Institute. Each participating school formulated a graduate tracking vision and identified needed tools and guidance. The group selected software, capacity-building, and infrastructure as the top three priorities on which the MEPI Technical Working Group should focus its time and energy. Going forward, participants agreed to share what each institution is doing to develop graduate tracking, hold institutions accountable for their progress, network to sustain momentum, jointly develop graduate tracking tools, collaborate to develop articles, and assist institutions in tracking graduates across borders.

TAGS: Graduate Tracking, Health Workers, MEPI, Preservice Education, Training

Preservice Education of Community Health Extension Workers, Nurses, and Midwives in Nigeria: Findings and Recommendations from a Rapid Scoping Assessment

February 2013 by Heather Ross, Rebecca Bailey, and Muktar Gadanya
application/pdf iconPreservice Education of Community Health Extension Workers, Nurses, and Midwives in Nigeria

Using a modified version of the CapacityPlus Bottlenecks and Best Buys approach, CapacityPlus assessed 19 institutions training targeted health cadres. The intent was to find areas where support by CapacityPlus could assist Nigerian training institutions to maximize the number of newly trained health workers produced between August 2012 and October 2013. Based on the findings, the assessment team recommended six possible activities for CapacityPlus support to schools of midwifery and health technology. (The project subsequently acted on these recommendations in close collaboration with Nigerian stakeholders.)

TAGS: Assessment, Community Health Workers, Heather Ross, Midwives, Nigeria, Nurses, Preservice Education, Rebecca Bailey

Human Resources for Health Professional Development at the District Level: Recommendations Based on the Ugandan Experience

February 2013 by Wilma Gormley and James McCaffery
application/pdf iconHRH Professional Development at the District Level

Many countries have committed to a process of decentralizing a range of human resources for health (HRH) responsibilities, decisions, and authorities to subnational or district levels. Such decentralization requires political and organizational adjustments in the way the health care workforce is managed at the subnational level. Health leaders and managers in a decentralized system need to be skilled in such areas as workforce planning, recruitment, deployment, performance management, and retention. Uganda is one country that has embarked on a program to strengthen HRH leadership and management at the district level. This report shares lessons learned from Uganda and—using this experience as a foundation—offers selected suggestions for how other countries might develop and implement HRH professional development programs at subnational levels.

TAGS: Health Systems Strengthening, HR Management, Leadership, Policy and Planning

Creating an Enabling Environment for Human Resources for Health Program Implementation in Three African Countries

February 2013 by Carie Muntifering Cox, Corinne Mahoney Farrell, Crystal Ng, Randi Burlew, and Sara Pacqué-Margolis
application/pdf iconCreating an Enabling Environment for HRH Program Implementation

Over the past decade, global and national health leaders have increasingly recognized the importance of investing in human resources for health (HRH) in order to scale up service delivery and meet the Millennium Development Goals. This prioritization has resulted in increased attention to and funding for HRH. Despite these advances, insufficient progress has been made in implementing HRH interventions to improve access to qualified health workers. Therefore, this qualitative study was conducted to determine the factors that define the enabling environment for successful implementation of HRH interventions in three countries: Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

TAGS: Health Workers, Human Resources for Health, Kenya, Resources, Tanzania, Uganda

Transforming the Health Worker Pipeline: Interventions to Eliminate Gender Discrimination in Preservice Education

December 2012 by Crystal Ng, Constance Newman, and Sara Pacqué-Margolis, with contributing authors Mesrak Belatchew, Diana Frymus, and Asha George
Transforming the Health Worker Pipeline

Governments and preservice education institutions must take action against gender barriers if they are to produce robust workforces able to respond to the health needs of the populations they serve. This report describes the results of a systematic and expert review undertaken to identify practices that have the potential to counter forms of gender discrimination against students and faculty in preservice education institutions. Also see the related technical brief.

TAGS: Education and Training, Gender, Health Workers, Preservice Education

Situational Analysis of the Twinning Center Para-Social Worker Training Program in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nigeria

September 2012 by Laura Guyer, Dana Singleton, and Nathan Linsk
application/pdf iconSituational Analysis of the Twinning Center Para-Social Worker Training Program

CapacityPlus conducted a situational analysis of a para-social worker training program in three country contexts. Para-social workers are volunteers who have received training in foundational skills in basic social service delivery to help address the human resources crisis in delivering social services to vulnerable populations, including children. This analysis validated that the twinning model is adaptable and should be employed to build a cadre of para-social workers at the local level. The analysis also provides the needed data for promoting and funding twinning practices and creating para-social worker cadres as an emergency human resources response to serving children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS.

TAGS: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Orphans and Vulnerable Children, Social Service Workforce, Social Workers, Tanzania